Image forming apparatus equipped with maintenance mechanism

Details Image forming apparatus equipped with maintenance mechanism Image forming apparatus equipped with maintenance mechanism

2008-03-18

2010-11-30

Meier, Stephen D (Department: 2853)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

C347S030000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07841691

ABSTRACT:
The image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus equipped with a maintenance mechanism that is divided into a plurality of ink pans, which are connected to each other at an edge of each of which by means of pins, on a bottom surface of each of which a plurality of caps are arranged, which at the time of storage, are stored from guide rails so as to be stored at a position beneath a conveyance path in a V-shaped state, the caps in the ink pans being opposed to each other in a V-shaped state, which are drawn out horizontally along the guide rails to a position beneath the recording head group, and in each of which the caps are allocated to the nozzle surfaces of the recording heads by a hoisting and lowering operation of a belt conveying unit.

REFERENCES:
patent: 7399056 (2008-07-01), Nakashima et al.
patent: 9-141880 (1997-06-01), None

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